A firefighter battles a peatland fire on Aug 10, 2019 in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. The fire broke out due to arid vegetation during the dry season. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia will respect Singapore’s investigation into individuals and companies implicated in the 2015 peatland and forest fires, on the condition that the investigation does not violate Indonesian sovereignty or international law.
The massive wildfires of 2015 in Sumatra and Kalimantan caused one of the worst cases of haze pollution on record in the past two decades. The disaster prompted Singapore to launch an investigation into at least four entities under its Transboundary Haze Pollution Act (THPA), which Indonesia said could infringe on its sovereignty.
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